Workforce Activation
Surge Response
SURGE RESPONSE EVENT CONDITIONS
In review, business continuity and surge response are separate activities but interdependent. Unfortunately through our work, we have found that there is no hard and fast way to gauge an event's severity simply by the type of event that it is. In actually, the severity will drive the level of response activation as well as the amount of business continuity that must take place.
The following graph illustrates the need for Public Health staff deployment based on the severity of an emergency event. There is a clear depiction of the need to sustain day to day business during a surge event.
UNDERSTANDING SURGE RESPONSE TEAMS
In the event of a health emergency, Public Health would be expected to provide expertise quickly and potentially on a large scale. Surge Response Teams are trained Public Health staff specializing in a specific topical area of public health response that act immediately during a health emergency.
Teams are structured in anticipation of a range of event conditions. The unique conditions of a particular event and decisions made by the incident command structure will determine the scope of surge response team activation. This section and the preparedness strategy section to which it is linked provides an overview of the key Surge Response Teams and their roles in public health preparedness strategy.
PREPAREDNESS STRATEGY
This model provides an illustration of department-wide preparedness strategy.
PART 1: Preparedness Strategy Flow Chart
SURGE RESPONSE CAPACITY
This tool provides an illustration of department wide surge response capacity, core capability, capability components and surge response teams with narrative descriptions. Ideally, each one of the teams defined in the planning process will be developed and appropriate staff will be identified and assigned to each team. As our planning process continued, it was essential for the planning team to scale down the number of teams for manageability of working through the process.
